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31 Dog loss Quotes to Help You Cope With Grief

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To known the love of a dog is an honor in itself. They fill voids, craters and abysses, some even unknown to ourselves. These totems of unconditional love and loyalty don’t just share our living rooms but lives as well. Alas, their lives are too short.

Anyone who has had pets knows that when time comes, which eventually does, no matter how hard you try to keep it’s cruel hands away, you can only grieve over what you once held so dear.

We have compiled a list of dog loss quotes to help those who are mourning their beloved pets find some comfort in these words. If you’ve landed on this page because of a recent loss, our deepest sympathies to you.

31 dog loss quotes to comfort a bereaved soul:

1. “Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet, you were not pretending to love it.” – Amy Sedaris

2. “If there is a heaven, it’s certain our animals are to be there. Their lives become so interwoven with our own, it would take more than an archangel to detangle them.” – Pam Brown

3. “It is amazing how much love and laughter they bring into our lives and even how much closer we become with each other because of them.” – John Grogan

4. “His ears were often the first thing to catch my tears.” ― Elizabeth Barrett

5. “Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn’t breaking. It hurts because it’s getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.” ― Rita Mae Brown

7. “If a dog has brightened your life and every day silently accepted your tears without judgement snuggled with you forgiven your faults, and loved you unconditionally, then you know what a gift dogs are to this world. ” ― Anonymous

8. “And they all said ‘I’m sorry for your loss,’ as if you were someone who could ever be taken from me.” ― Robert Brault

9. “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” ― Thomas Campbell

Jaspreet, who lost her furry pal Freddie three years ago, shares her pain:

Having a furry friend like Freddie made for the happiest days of my life. I sure everyone would agree that there aren’t no pain like losing a pet. The day he left, my heart forgot how to go on without him. For others he was “Just a dog” but for me he was my companion through all the tides of time. So often, I sit alone and think about that day when he left us. April 7, 2013. Three years have passed and I still cannot understand the reason why he didn’t come home that day, like any another day. What really happened that day? No one knows about that story. All these unanswered stories died that day when he left us. The way I used to smile when I saw his shining eyes, those shiny eyes that used to fill my heart with happiness.

Those tears that streamed down my eyes when he’d sit on my lap and I’d share my secrets with him. Everyone thinks he died that day but what I still feel him. May be with him gone – my smile, my faith towards the almighty has gone too. Everyone keeps saying he will never come back. Yeah!! He will never but I have faith he is watching me over at each and every step of life, like sun rays do in the days and like stars at nights. What I do know is when I die, he will be waiting for me at the gates of heaven. For now, I shall wait to connect with him again, feel his presence again and ask him, “why did you go?”

10. “One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.” ― Antonio Porchia

“Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished.”― Dean Koontz https://t.co/XWtP7LJqnu

11.“He is my other eyes that can see above the clouds; my other ears that hear above the winds. He is the part of me that can reach out into the sea. He has told me a thousand times over that I am his reason for being; by the way he rests against my leg; by the way he thumps his tail at my smallest smile; by the way he shows his hurt when I leave without taking him. (I think it makes him sick with worry when he is not along to care for me.) When I am wrong, he is delighted to forgive. When I am angry, he clowns to make me smile. When I am happy, he is joy unbounded. When I am a fool, he ignores it. When I succeed, he brags. Without him, I am only another man. With him, I am all-powerful. He is loyalty itself. He has taught me the meaning of devotion. With him, I know a secret comfort and a private peace. He has brought me understanding where before I was ignorant. His head on my knee can heal my human hurts. His presence by my side is protection against my fears of dark and unknown things. He has promised to wait for me… whenever… wherever – in case I need him. And I expect I will – as I always have. He is just my dog.” ― Gene Hill

12. “I have sometimes thought of the final cause of dogs having such short lives and I am quite satisfied it is in compassion to the human race; for if we suffer so much in losing a dog after an acquaintance of ten or twelve years, what would it be if they were to live double that time? The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?” ― Sir Walter Scott

13. “Dogs…do not ruin their sleep worrying about how to keep the objects they have, and to obtain the objects they have not. There is nothing of value they have to bequeath except their love and their faith.” ― Eugene O’Neill

14. “Unlike some people who have experienced the loss of an animal, I did not believe, even for a moment, that I would never get another. I did know full well that there were just too many animals out there in need of homes for me to take what I have always regarded as the self-indulgent road of saying the heartbreak of the loss of an animal was too much ever to want to go through with it again.

To me, such an admission brought up the far more powerful admission that all the wonderful times you had with your animal were not worth the unhappiness at the end.” ― Cleveland Amory

15. “People leave imprints on our lives, shaping who we become in much the same way that a symbol is pressed into the page of a book to tell you who it comes from. Dogs, however, leave paw prints on our lives and our souls, which are as unique as fingerprints in every way.” ― Ashly Lorenzana

16. “If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons. ” ― James Thurber

I wish someone had given Jesus a dog. As loyal and loving as mine. To sleep by His manger and gaze in His eyes And adore Him for being divine.

As our Lord grew to manhood His faithful dog, Would have followed Him all through the day. While He preached to the crowds and made the sick well And knelt in the garden to pray. It is sad to remember that Christ went away. To face death alone and apart. With no tender dog following close behind, To comfort its Master’s Heart. And when Jesus rose on that Easter morn, How happy He would have been, As His dog kissed His hand and barked it’s delight, For The One who died for all men.

Well, the Lord has a dog now, I just sent Him mine, The old pal so dear to me. And I smile through my tears on this first day alone, Knowing they’re in eternity. Day after day, the whole day through, Wherever my road inclined, Four feet said, “Wait, I’m coming with you!” And trotted along behind.

– Rudyard Kipling

21.The Rainbow Bridge

“Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge. When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge. There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together. There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable. All the animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigour; those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by. The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing; they each miss someone very special to them, who had to be left behind. They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. His bright eyes are intent; His eager body quivers. Suddenly he begins to run from the group, flying over the green grass, his legs carrying him faster and faster. You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again.

The happy kisses rain upon your face; your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart. Then you cross Rainbow Bridge together.” – Anonymous

22. “Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of man, without his vices.” – Lord Byron

23.Don’t Cry for me When I’m Gone

So, though I give you all my heart, The time will come when we must part. But all around you, you will see, Creatures that speak to you of me; A tired horse, a hunted thing, A sparrow with a broken wing … Pity – and help (I know you will) And somehow, I will be with you still; And I shall know, although I’m gone, The love I gave you lingers on.– Anonymous

24. Pet Heaven

There’s a bridge beyond the rainbow That God prepared with care So when our pets must leave us We’ll know that they are there.

It is a special sanctum Where they can rest and play, Knowing we will claim them Again some joyous day.

Our bond will be renewed Just as it was before; The undying love of a pet You cannot ask for more.

I pray for such a Heaven For in my heart I know Wherever He does take them – That’s where I want to go.

– C. David Hay

25. “There is sorrow enough in the natural way From men and women to fill our day; But when we are certain of sorrow in store Why do we always arrange for more? Brothers and sisters I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.”– Rudyard Kipling

26. To call him a dog hardly seems to do him justice, though inasmuch as he had four legs, a tail, and barked, I admit he was, to all outward appearances. But to those who knew him well, he was a perfect gentleman.– Hermione Gingold

27. “I guess you don’t really own a dog, you rent them, and you have to be thankful that you had a long lease.”– Joe Garagiola

28. It came to me that every time I lose a dog they take a little piece of my heart with them and every new dog who comes into my life gifts me with a piece of their heart. If I live long enough, all of the components of my heart will be dog and I will become as generous and as loving as they are. ––Anonymous

29. Pawprints Left By You You no longer greet me, As I walk through the door. You’re not there to make me smile, To make me laugh anymore. Life seems quiet without you, You were far more than a pet. You were a family member, a friend . . . a loving soul I’ll never forget. It will take time to heal – For the silence to go away. I still listen for you, And miss you every day. You were such a great companion, Constant, loyal and true. My heart will always wear, the pawprints left by you.– Teri Harrison

30. “There are some who think it’s foolish to weep, Over a cherished pet in eternal sleep. But those poor souls are truly blind, for they know not of the creature kind. But you who devoted so many years, deserve the time to shed those tears. Over the loss of your furry friend, whose life on earth has come to an end. And may the tears that you now weep, sow loving memories forever to keep.”– Anonymous

31. It came to me that every time I lose a dog they take a piece of my heart with them, and every new dog who comes into my life gifts me with a piece of their heart. If I live long enough all the components of my heart will be dog, and I will become as generous and loving as they are. – Anonymous

May this collection of dog loss quotes, sayings and poems about about our four-legged friends help find you comfort.

One thought on “31 Dog loss Quotes to Help You Cope With Grief”

Am closely associated with an online group of pet parents whose babies crossed Rainbow Bridge. Loved the collection. And was happy to see this one “People who really appreciated animals always asked their names.” ― Lilian Jackson Braun. I do that a lot of times even to dogs I find on street. Passer-bys must have thought I am crazy but i indeed do ask, ‘little one, what’s your name?’ and sincerely expect an answer. A mere wag of tail in response to this says so much.